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On the Day of the Broken Engagement, I Married a Half-Blood Dragon
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00:00In my first life, my fiancé Derek despised me for not being pure enough for the mixed colors in my
00:04flame.
00:05The day I gave birth, he couldn't even wait for me to get off the birthing bed before he burned
00:09me and my still crying baby to ash with a blast of black fire.
00:13As I died, I cursed him. In every life, may you die a miserable death.
00:18Then I was reborn from the ashes.
00:20In my second life, when I opened my eyes again, I was back to the day before my engagement.
00:24My fiancé Derek Cole was standing in my family's main tent, announcing in front of everyone that he was going
00:30to marry my sister Mia.
00:31He had been reborn too. In our last life, he was a rising star among the pure-blood dragons.
00:35He married me because my family and bloodline were just barely worthy of him.
00:39But later I gave birth to a child with markled scales and a dull, weak flame. A half-breed.
00:42He thought I had ruined him. He thought I had deceived him. So he killed us.
00:46Now he had come back to do it over, convinced that if he chose my pure-blood sister, he would
00:51get the perfect heir he wanted.
00:53What he didn't know was that the child Mia carried was a half-breed too.
00:59No! No, that's not right. Let him find out for himself.
01:02When I woke up, my chest still hurt. The feeling of fire burning straight through my ribs felt carved into
01:07my soul.
01:08It took me a full ten seconds to realize I was still alive. Still whole. Still had a heartbeat.
01:14The animal hide stretched over the tent roof was the one Mother had brought back from the Southern Tribe last
01:18year.
01:18A totem pole stood in the center of the tent, carved all over with the marks of our ancestors.
01:22The basket of nearly withered healing herbs in the corner was still right where it had been.
01:26Everything was exactly as I remembered.
01:28Then I saw Derek. His gaze swept over the main tent, over my parents, over the shamans and chiefs present.
01:34Then it landed on me.
01:36That look was not the tenderness he had worn before our wedding in my last life.
01:39It was disgust, contempt.
01:41He came back too.
01:43Uncle Auntie, I know this is wrong, but I can't form a bond with Olivia.
01:47The main tent fell silent for one second.
01:50Then whispers broke out, like a swarm of insects startled into flight.
01:56My father, Marcus, was one of the leaders of the Dragon Council.
02:01Say that again.
02:03Mia and I are together now.
02:05She's carrying my cub.
02:09Derek!
02:10You and Olivia have been promised to each other since childhood.
02:13Your blood compatibility is 92%.
02:15We tested it three times.
02:17You can't just break it off because you feel like it.
02:20Our parents arranged that engagement.
02:22I didn't choose it.
02:23He turned towards me.
02:25No.
02:26He walked towards me.
02:32In our last life, you humiliated me.
02:35This time, I won't make the same mistake.
02:38Olivia, I don't want to hurt you.
02:40I just can't marry someone who is...
02:42He paused.
02:43The entire main tent waited for him to say the word.
02:47I just can't take that risk.
02:49He didn't say it.
02:51But everyone understood.
02:53Bloodline.
02:54Blood.
02:54Purity.
02:55Those three words drifted through the family hall like ghosts.
02:57No one dared say them out loud.
02:59But everyone didn't knew exactly what they meant.
03:01Everyone in the family knew my flame was the wrong color and the pattern of my scales was wrong.
03:04Since childhood, the Elders had judged my bloodline as tainted.
03:07When I first awakened at seven, my flame was gold but streaked with red threads.
03:10That was not the color of a pure blood dragon.
03:12To my face, the Elders called it potential.
03:14A possible mutation.
03:15A special gift.
03:16But in private, the word they used was half-breed.
03:18They just didn't dare say it to my face.
03:20I agree.
03:21What did you say?
03:22I said I agree.
03:25Article 17 of the Dragon Code.
03:27The party whose engagement is broken has the right to choose a spouse independently within 30 days.
03:32I want to invoke it.
03:33Do you understand what Article 17 means?
03:36It means you give up all family protection over your marriage.
03:39It means the spouse you choose will not be screened, will not be verified, and there will be no bottom
03:44line.
03:44I understand.
03:47I choose him.
03:49No one had ever paid attention to him.
03:51His eyes were a dark gold that belonged to no pure blood dragon.
03:56A color mainstream society saw as the mark of a half-breed.
04:00Are you insane?
04:05You're choosing a...
04:06A what?
04:07A half-breed just like me?
04:09Is that the word you want to say, Derek?
04:11Say it!
04:11He didn't dare.
04:12He didn't dare say that word in front of a room full of elders because the moment he did,
04:17he would be admitting that the real reason he had broken off the engagement was not love.
04:22It was blood discrimination.
04:24In modern dragon society, it was an open secret, but no one dared say it in a formal setting.
04:29Everyone wore masks.
04:30Everyone spoke politely.
04:32Everyone stabbed each other in the back.
04:34No one was stupid enough to draw their blade on the battlefield.
04:39What are you still standing there for?
04:41Come here.
04:49What's your name?
04:52Luke.
04:53Luke and I formed a bond.
04:54The process was simple.
04:55Go to the Elder's Hall, register, and have both parties sign the contract.
04:58No ceremony, no blessing, not even friends needed to be present.
05:01The fire basin at the registration office burned bright.
05:04And the animal hide scroll of the dragon code hung on the wall, yellowed with age, its edges curling.
05:08When I signed, Mia stood in the doorway.
05:10Who do you think that half-breed of yours can give birth to?
05:13A lizard?
05:13Or a whole nest of snakes?
05:15My guess, yours will be much more interesting than mine.
05:18She didn't know what I knew, but she sensed it.
05:21After I signed, I set down the pen and walked past her without stopping.
05:25At the far end of the corridor, Derek stood to the side, staring hard at me.
05:31What do you know?
05:32I know you chose the wrong person.
05:34But don't worry, Derek.
05:36Your good days are far from over.
05:38It was only one phrase, but it carried so much.
05:40Last life.
05:41Killing intent.
05:42Fear.
05:42And something I didn't recognize.
05:45Maybe despair.
05:46You killed me in our last life.
05:48In this one, I'm still alive.
05:49I saw a flicker of fear in his eyes.
05:51Not fear of me.
05:52Not fear of power.
05:53It was fear of the fact that the woman knew everything.
05:55The fear that comes right before a secret is exposed.
05:58When I walked out of the Elder's Hall, Luke was leaning against a stone pillar in the corridor.
06:01Rolling an old silver coin was badly worn.
06:03The image on its face almost impossible to see.
06:06All sign?
06:07All sign.
06:08What were you saying to them out there?
06:10Nothing.
06:10Just saying hello.
06:17Your claws are shaking.
06:18No, they're not.
06:19Olivia.
06:20I said they're not.
06:22He simply took off his outer robe, carrying in the warmth of his fire and a scent I couldn't
06:25quite name.
06:26The robe was cold, metallic scent of pure-blood dragons.
06:28But something wilder.
06:30Something deeper.
06:30Like forest after rain.
06:32Or charred wood.
06:32That night, we went back to Luke's tent together.
06:34He was warming beast milk by the fire pit.
06:36He said the midwife told him and needed to be nourished.
06:38His tent was small, walls lied to him I was nearly bored.
06:40But everything was clean.
06:41Wooden bowls and anaple spoons were neatly stacked on the stone shelf, and there wasn't
06:44a speck of rust on his blade.
06:45Why were you willing to marry me?
06:46You want the truth?
06:48Hmm.
06:50Because you chose.
06:51You stood in the middle of the main tent with everyone watching, and you chose me.
06:57Just for that?
06:59Just for that.
07:06Not many dragons would choose one of their own in that moment.
07:10Most would choose themselves.
07:12That was choosing myself, too.
07:14I chose you because I needed to get away from Derek.
07:17I know.
07:19But you could have grabbed any dragon at the door to sign with you, then gone your separate
07:22ways.
07:23You didn't.
07:25How do you know I won't?
07:27Yeah.
07:31Because you're still sitting here, drinking my beast milk.
07:35I said nothing.
07:36He was right.
07:38I hadn't left.
07:39The days passed quietly like that.
07:42I found out I was pregnant two months later.
07:45In my last life.
07:47In my last life, at this very moment, I thought I was carrying Derek's cub.
07:51I had gone to tell him, full of joy.
07:58I hope you don't embarrass me again.
08:00His expression looked like he had already decided to throw it away before he even skinned
08:05it.
08:06Then I gave birth to a daughter with martled scales, and a flame so weak it was almost invisible.
08:19This isn't mine.
08:23She is yours.
08:25My seed could never turn out like that.
08:30He didn't even wait for me to explain.
08:44Olivia, you've been in the private tent for 20 minutes.
08:48Luke's expression changed.
08:50First confusion, then alertness, then something I didn't recognize.
08:55What's wrong?
08:58I handed him the pregnancy stone.
09:09Ours?
09:10Who else's would it be?
09:15Not Derek's?
09:17Not Derek's.
09:19100% yours.
09:32Are you happy?
09:34I don't know.
09:36But I'm thinking about something.
09:39What?
09:40Your last life.
09:43Why did Derek kill you?
09:45I froze.
09:46I hadn't told him.
09:47I had never told anyone about my last life.
09:50About that cub.
09:51About that fire.
09:52About the instant so sudden I didn't even have time to scream.
09:55The cub.
09:56Mottled scales.
09:58Unstable flame.
09:59He thought it wasn't his.
10:01It wasn't his?
10:03It was.
10:04But that cub really didn't look pure blood.
10:08Olivia, have you ever considered something?
10:10What?
10:10A cub born from two mixed bloods may not be a mixed blood.
10:14What does that mean?
10:15He didn't answer.
10:17He only placed his claws over my lower abdomen.
10:19Within the black tongues of flame was a strand of gold I had never seen before.
10:23That gold was not the cold gold of the pure blood dragons.
10:27It was warmer.
10:28More like sunrise.
10:29Your cub.
10:30It isn't the same as the cub from your last life.
10:33What are you talking about?
10:34I'm saying you were robbed.
10:38Robbed?
10:39By who?
10:42Mia's due date was three weeks before mine.
10:45The news spread through the entire dragon council.
10:49Derek Cole was holding a bloodline witnessing ceremony for his first child.
10:53And he had invited every elder and noble.
10:57To put it plainly, he was showing off.
11:00Showing off that he had chosen the right woman.
11:02That his heir would be pure blood.
11:03That abandoning me had been such a brilliant decision.
11:06He wanted everyone to see that Derek Cole had not been dragged down by that half-breed.
11:10That Derek Cole's bloodline would continue.
11:11That Derek Cole was the winner.
11:14On the day of the ceremony, Luke and I stood at the very back of the hall.
11:20No one noticed us.
11:22No one wanted to notice us.
11:25I knew what he was thinking.
11:26He was thinking this was only the first step.
11:29There was a longer road ahead.
11:31One child wasn't enough.
11:33He wanted an entire tribe.
11:35My parents sat in the front row.
11:37Their seats had been assigned.
11:39No one cared whether they wanted to be there.
11:41To miss an occasion like this would be to openly oppose the Cole family.
11:44And my father's place on the council still needed Marcus Cole's vote.
11:48What do you think it'll be?
11:50Do you want the truth or the polite version?
11:52The truth.
11:54A turkey.
11:56Or a lizard.
11:57Or something worse.
12:03The glory of pure-blood dragons.
12:07The future of the Cole family.
12:09The support of the clan.
12:11Every sentence was formulatical.
12:13Every gesture had been precisely calculated.
12:17Then the delivery room door opened.
12:22Marcus's smile froze on his face.
12:24The whole room went silent.
12:26Every eye fixed on the white cloth.
12:29Waiting for the midwife to uncover it.
12:31The baby's scales were grey-green.
12:33Uneven in shade.
12:34Its eyes opened a slit.
12:35And the color of its pupils was wrong.
12:37It was not the gold of pure-blood dragons.
12:39Nor the dark yellow ex-blood dragons.
12:40It was a murky sickly dark yellow.
12:43Like pos left too long.
12:44What is that?
12:45It's my child.
12:47Let me see.
12:48Even more terrifying were its dragon wings.
12:50The fleshy wing that should have unfolded at bear.
12:53The symbol of a dragon's identity.
12:55Had only grown halfway.
12:56The other half was a malformed, wrinkled lump of skin.
12:59The only one who was a man who was a man who was a man who was a man who
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13:28was
13:28nothing wrong with my bloodline it's you you're the problem in our last life you and she suddenly
13:34suddenly shut her mouth but it was too late last life what last life derrick's expression in that
13:42moment was the most spectacular thing i had ever seen fear rage shame and the despair of knowing
13:48everything was over every emotion spriched up at once crowding onto his handsome face until it
13:52twisted out of shape it was you you cursed me he was fast but luke was faster
14:10don't touch her the whole room went silent
14:24fire impossible what is it marcus do you know that fire marcus didn't answer
14:32the way he looked at luke changed it wasn't the hostility from before it wasn't irritation at
14:40having his speech interrupted it was something older more instinctive fear not fear of an enemy
14:49fear of something from the past mia and derrick's pure blood air was half lizard the news spread
14:55through all of dragon society someone revealed the secret it was sealed quickly however the message
15:02has already been leaked the comments were unbearable to read some said mia's bloodline
15:08was the problem some said derrick's bloodline was the problem some said both of them were the problem
15:13the truth didn't matter what mattered was that they were finished but to derrick there was one thing
15:20even more terrifying than social death me that night we returned to our accommodation luke closed the door
15:29leaned against it and looked at me you want to know the truth what i used just now was the
15:36fire of the
15:37ancient dragons when marcus saw it he recognized it that wasn't the power of modern pure blood dragons
15:46luke was silent for a long time do you know where pure blood dragons come from since i was little
15:54i
15:55was taught that pure blood is innate natural selection the peak of evolution then do you know where half
16:01greets come from these scars they aren't from fights they're from rituals what rituals the cole family
16:15marcus cole derrick's father or rather every family that calls itself pure blood their pure blood wasn't
16:22natural it was stolen what do you mean every time a new life is born they perform a ritual
16:28they extract dragon crystals from dragons with impure blood lines he never talked about himself i had
16:35known him for two months and he had never said a word about his past i knew what a dragon
16:40crystal was
16:41every dragon has one in their chest it is the source of our power the color and quality of a
16:46dragon
16:46christ determines the form and strength of the flame if the dragon crystal shatters the dragon dies
16:51no exceptions a mixed blood's dragon crystal is far more active than a pure blood's because a mixed
16:57blood's flame is unstable the crystal has to keep adapting and adjusting and that activity
17:03it can be extracted
17:05a pure blood dragon's crystal is constant stable it doesn't grow stronger or weaker but a mixed blood's
17:11crystal is different it can be smelled remade and injected into another dragon's body they use mixed
17:17blood dragon crystals to strengthen their own blood lines luke didn't speak but his silence was
17:24the clearest confirmation how do you know because i was one of the dragons they extracted from
17:33when i was 15 marcus cole found me he said he would help me awaken you know the line every
17:38mixed
17:38blood has heard it come with us and we'll help remove the impurities from your bloodline
17:43you went i went my mother had just died i was living alone in a grass shed in the south
17:48no herd no
17:49kin my flame would go out of control from time to time and burn every piece of prey i could
17:52find
17:52driving a beast car pulled by four thestuals he said he would come to help me they locked me in
17:56a
17:57dungeon and extracted my dragon crystal for three days and three nights they thought i was unconscious
18:01the whole time but i wasn't i was awake i watched them melt the crystal they took from me into
18:07glowing
18:07liquid and injected into a cub's body who was that cub
18:15you guessed right it was derrick cole
18:19derrick's pure blood had not been maintained by the blood i donated not by that bottle of heart
18:24blood taken from my chest every year the pain so bad i curled in on myself
18:30it was maintained by my own kind by the lives of every mixed blood dragon they had branded a half
18:36street
18:37in my last life every year i had to send their family a bottle of my heart blood they said
18:46it was
18:46to build affection with derrick i was pierced with needles from childhood until i nearly died from the
18:51pain and i thought that was just my fate because i was mixed blood i was supposed to endure it
18:57it was compensation it was the price it was what i owed them that wasn't your fate that was their
19:04lie
19:05they used my blood our blood to keep up derrick's disguise to make everyone believe he was pure blood
19:12to let him stand above us look down on us judge us kill us then he killed you
19:18killed your child because he couldn't let the truth come out your child the one you gave birth to in
19:25your last life if she had lived if she had grown up her scales and flame would have proven one
19:30thing
19:31what a child born from two mixed bloods is not mixed blood it is the source the ancient dragons the
19:40true dragons were never pure blood they were mixed blood because mixed blood means adaptation it means
19:47change it means the power to devour everything and bring everything back to life but pure blood
19:56pure blood is a dead end a self-deceiving lie destined for extinction that night luke took me somewhere
20:05deep within the family territory there was a forgotten ruin i had gone there once as a child but
20:12mother dragged me back she said it was unlucky and forbade me from going again
20:18it was not an ordinary key it was made of bone white and slightly yellowed
20:29but i knew those words were not modern dragon writing
20:33they weren't any dragon language i knew the symbols curved and flowed like the shape of flames
20:40generations of dragon ancestors are buried here
20:43at least that's what everyone says no they didn't die they were exiled
20:50the stone chamber was small only about two meters square and every wall was covered in murals
20:55no names no names no dates only those ancient curving symbols and images
21:02it was ten times the size of the other dragons its wingspan covering half the sky
21:13then the mural changed they severed the dragon race's connection to its past
21:22they killed the last mixed blood king of the ancient dragons stole its dragon crystal divided into
21:27thirteen pieces and smelted those pieces into their own bodies from then on they called themselves pure
21:33blood from then on mixed blood became a disgrace from then on every few decades they had to find a
21:39new
21:39group of mixed blood dragons extract their dragon crystals and use them extend their own lives
21:45do you know why they've always had their eyes on you because my flame is the wrong color because the
21:50pattern of my scales is wrong because i'm a half-breed because inside you is because you are the
21:57reincarnation of that ancient dragon i am the you are the king they killed three times stole from countless
22:06times and yet every time you were reborn from the ashes in this life i will stand in front of
22:15you
22:15not because you need protection but because since i was 15 i have been waiting for one of my own
22:21someone willing to choose me and you chose his voice was trembling it was the first time i
22:26had ever heard his voice tremble i thought the story ended there but i was wrong on the third day
22:32after the ceremony mia disappeared she hadn't run away from the nest she hadn't gone to see a witch
22:38doctor about her body she vanished from the cole family territory out of thin air the midwife said she
22:46got up in the middle of the night to feed the cub and then she was gone
22:54derek was the first to messenger to me
22:57not because he cared about mia but because he knew i would strangely it wasn't angry it wasn't urgent
23:07it was soft in a way i had never heard before almost pleading olivia mia is missing what does that
23:15have to do with me i heard him take a deep breath on the other end of the soundstone if
23:20you're willing
23:21to help me find her i'll show you something what the truth about that cub from your last life
23:33then i found luke derek says he knows about what happened in the last life
23:37he was cooking a pot of meat soup in the stone pot were wild greens roots and bones from some
23:42beast i
23:43didn't know where he had hunted
23:48what does he know he says he knows the truth about the cub
23:56he's lying but he may know something like what like who stole your cup
24:04luke and i went to the cole family territory
24:07their land was on the mountain to the north spranning wide it was a long walk from the fortress gate
24:14to the main hall
24:20come with me
24:28inside was a ritual refining room no not a ritual refining room a slaughterhouse it was not alive
24:35what is this derek didn't answer the bone scroll was very old its edges worn down my name was carved
24:46on
24:46it inside were branded animal hides many sheets the same cub rubbed from different angles behind them
24:54were notched tables room data and blood pattern analysis scrolls derek has never fathered a pureblood cub
25:01not once the cole family's bloodline was already polluted in the first generation
25:04their method of extracting mixed blood dragon crystals has a fatal side effect
25:08each generation is weaker than the last derek is the final generation
25:12he cannot produce any healthy cub then what about mia's cub
25:16my father did that what do you mean my father he started cultivating ambrose five years ago
25:21with my essence blood with mixed blood dragon essence blood cultivated in the ritual refining room
25:25the one mia carried was never my cub it was a ritual thing they implanted in her body
25:29your wording changed you called her mia not my sister
25:34now you see her as a living being not your rival
25:37he said nothing for a long time
25:40mia disappeared she got up in the middle of the night and saw that stone trough
25:45saw the corpse of her cub the one she thought had died the one we told her died at birth
25:50and she disappeared what did you do to her we didn't do anything but she took that bone scroll
25:59that scroll contains all the evidence the cole families bloodline fraud ritual cultivation mixed
26:04blood dragon crystal extraction everything is in there so you came to me not because she's missing but
26:08because she took your secrets my father doesn't want mia what does he want he wants that cub
26:18i did not go to rescue mia not because i didn't care but because i knew where she was
26:22our mother elena she had never accepted my father's seat on the council never accepted being forced to
26:28attend every cole family event never accepted her two daughters being treated as political bargaining
26:33chips she had been waiting all along waiting for a chance waiting for a blade sharp enough mia gave
26:38that bone scroll to her then elena did something no one expected she issued a bloodline proclamation
26:43in the front courtyard of the family estate before all the elders before all the council members
26:47before the watching dragons she released everything in the bone scroll piece by piece
26:51every item was perfectly clear the cole family's bloodline fraud the embryo smelting authorization
26:57personally signed by marcus cole in dragon script the list of mixed blood dragons illegally imprisoned
27:02and stripped of their dragon crystals he didn't know someone had tampered with the voice prince stone
27:06derrick is not pure blood he never was but we had no other choice the council needed an heir
27:13the cole family needed a future we only did what had to be done the hall was deathly silent
27:28it was a blood pattern origin tracing scroll at first glance the entire blood pattern was dark
27:33gold with the purity index marked along the edge of the scroll at over 97 this was the mark of
27:39a pure
27:40blood dragon there was nothing wrong with it but at the imprint corresponding to the 12th heart scale
27:45a tiny section of the pattern was the wrong color the source of that pattern was written on the final
27:51line
27:52of the scroll it was the first time i had ever seen that blood pattern scroll
27:57you knew i knew you knew from the beginning i've always known you knew the dragon crystal inside
28:04him was part of you yes that's why i'm taking it back the conflict broke out the next day
28:12derrick struck first he had lost everything his fiancee his child his family's reputation his council seat
28:19he had nothing left a person with nothing left is the most dangerous because he has nothing left to
28:26lose either when he came to find me with that knife i was packing in the apartment mia was coming
28:32to
28:32stay for a few days she didn't dare go back to her own home and she didn't dare return to
28:36the coal
28:36estate she was staying with mother for the moment but mother said she needed time alone so mia had no
28:41choice but to come to me when the doorbell rang i thought it was her he knew i wouldn't die
28:52but he no
28:54longer cared put down the knife
29:04derrick did not put it down the thing you took that piece of dragon crystal inside your body it isn't
29:10yours
29:11it never was your life is fake your bloodline is fake your pure blood was stolen you are nothing
29:29this should hurt but i don't want to hurt you i don't want to become like you
29:38take it and never appear in front of us again
29:52i'll get the first aid kit no need
29:56i want a different ending
30:00what do you mean in your last life when you died i was on the other side of the city
30:07i felt it but i couldn't get there in time by the time i arrived you were already
30:12nothing but ash not this time
30:17not this time after mia arrived she saw the blood on the floor of the nest and almost turned around
30:25and
30:25flew away again
30:36i'm sorry olivia i'm sorry i know i shouldn't have i know back then i shouldn't have treated you that
30:41way
30:45you don't need to apologize why are you never angry because i don't have time to be angry
30:53that was the truth i didn't have time to be angry there was still too much i had to do
31:00i had to give birth to my child i had to watch luke take back his dragon crystal i had
31:06to watch
31:06marcus cole stand trial i had to see every young dragon in that glass throughout properly buried
31:16that night luke burned a calming leaf on the stargazing platform outside the nest
31:24he rarely touched things like that the night dew is heavy go inside are you cold no liar
31:40when i was 15 in that dungeon i thought i was going to die there
31:46i know but not because of the pain because i thought no dragon would come looking for me
31:52no dragon knew i was there even if i died there i would only be treated as a missing half
31:57breed
31:58no dragon would ask no dragon would search no dragon would care
32:12but they were wrong who was wrong all dragons
32:20let's go back you need to sleep news of marcus cole's arrest came three days later
32:25he was not arrested by the dragon council he was arrested at the dragon enforcement unit
32:30the black dragon guard they had received an anonymous bone scroll sealed with dragon blood
32:36delivered with the bone scroll was a memory crystal the images from that memory crystal
32:40were projected onto the announcement stone tablets at the center of every dragon territory
32:44the next day the black dragon guard raided the cole family's nest on the third day
32:48when marcus cole was dragged out from the depths of the nest marcus cole did not struggle
32:53he showed no anger no fear in his vertical pupils was a kind of relief
32:58as if he finally no longer had to keep acting two days later the dragon council held an emergency
33:04session bloodline fraud illegal imprisonment abuse of minors murder every charge came with witness
33:11testimony and physical evidence he spent 40 minutes telling his story word by word
33:18from being taken at 15 to three days and nights of crystal extraction to being abandoned at the
33:25entrance of the east district hospital the council's decision passed unanimously all noble titles held
33:31by families calling themselves pure blood were revoked every clause in the dragon code concerning bloodline
33:35hierarchy was abolished a compensation fund was established specifically for mixed blood dragons
33:41whose dragon crystals had been extracted marcus cole was sentenced to permanent imprisonment
33:47although derrick cole had not directly participated in his father's crimes
33:50he had known the truth and benefited from it he was stripped of his dragon status
33:54his dragon crystal was forcibly removed and he reverted to what he had originally been
33:58your child from the last life he didn't kill her what did you say the child from your last life
34:04he didn't kill her he sent her away sent her to another world she's alive somewhere she's alive
34:14i don't know i really don't i only know she was sent away since somewhere no one could find her
34:19that was the last thing my father said he said he couldn't kill a child that was the one thing
34:24he
34:24couldn't do derrick left i stood in the tent passage and did not move there was a cub inside
34:33and there was another cub somewhere in the world alive she was still alive i did not cry the crying
34:41came
34:42later that night in luke's tent while he was changing the herbs on the wound on his claw
34:54we'll find her how do you know because you're the kind of dragon who finds her own
35:01you won't stop until you do i laughed but the laugh was part of the crying so it was ugly
35:07he didn't mind the cub was born one week later a daughter what's her name
35:17iris
35:20why because iris means rainbow because her flame is the color of a rainbow
35:26because when she came all the colors came with her
35:32iris
35:36his smile was ugly because his eyes were too bright so bright his smile couldn't hide it
35:43his dragon crystal had returned
35:47you're back i didn't know who he was talking to maybe iris maybe another dragon
35:55maybe the king in the mural the one killed three times and reborn from the ashes every time
36:00but it didn't matter because this time no dragon would die this was my second life but there would
36:06not be a third outside the tent flap was night inside the tent flap was light and a cub
36:13a hand inside the tentheld and him
36:16mine
36:16mine
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